I want to make a horror movie

Once I wrote a story about an invasion of some creatures from the centre of the earth, it was a B-horror-movie with a lot of cheesy lines and it was a great a story that I have been dying to make. While working on Road I found this greats graphics from Studio Canal that put in images how to make different genres of films.

Infographic Wednesday: Horror Villains

Big part of the allure of Horror Films is the villain, if you ask anyone about a legendary horror film the first things that come to mind is the villain not the hero, this villains have some great origins and back stories. This graphic shows us a little bit about this stories and characteristics.

Infographic Wednesday: The evolution of horror films

Each year hundred of horror films are made and release around the world, big budget film, b-movies, low budget, indie films, etc. All this films add something to the genre and here is a graphic courtesy of CNN that show us the evolution of the genre.

Horror movies by numbers

Horror movies are usually a low budget films with equally low income, but sometime a movie came out that its production value is over charts and of course sometimes this break box-office records. In other occasions a tiny production with no remarkable ideas became the horror movie of the year. EJFOX.com created this infographic showing which of the films in the last 40 years are the top grossing films of the genre.

F.Y.I. the graphic also shows the constant presence of the most famous monster of the genre, Dracula.

How long would you survive in a horror movie?

It is time for my favorite holiday, Halloween! In order to celebrate this month I will post infographics tribute to the genre of the month Horror. The first one is a quiz by College Humor that uses the premises of every cliche of the genre. So are you ready to know if you would survive to the end of the film?

93. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

Directed by Edgar Wright

Written by Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg

Produced by Nira Park

Starring: Simon Pegg, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Nick Forst, Dylan Maron, Bill Nighy and Penelope Wilton

Country: United Kingdom and France

Release Date: March 29, 2004

91. Scream (1996)

Directed by Wes Craven

Written by Kevin Willismson

Produced by Cathy Konrad and Cary Woods

Starring: Davis Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courtney Cox, Mathew Llilard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich, Jamie Kennedy and Drew Barrymore

Country: USA

Release date: December 20, 1996

82. Alien (1979)

Directed by Ridley Scott

Written by Dan O’Bannon

Produced by Gordon, Carroll. David Giler and Walter Hill

Starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Koblo

Country: United Kingdom and USA

Release Date: May 25, 1979.